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The thing that scares me the most about it is that twenty years is a long time. I'm not at all confident that I can predict the direction society will take over
by Ancapistani 5y ago
The thing that scares me the most about it is that twenty years is a long time. I'm not at all confident that I can predict the direction society will take over the next two decades. By extensions, I'm also not at all confident that I can judge, today, what will be considered abhorrent in the future.
- underseacables 5y agoThat’s a good point. I was listening to a podcast of a comedy historian explain how comedy is very generational. If you go back and listen to the comedians of our parents generation, it’s very different than what we hear today, it’s very rare to see comedians cross generations. Twenty years ago what did we have? No Twitter, Facebook, nascent digital photos, mostly VHS and DVD. Today a digital image, video, or screenshot could be saved by someone who genuinely wants to cause someone harm in the future. It’s already been done and when it happens to some random kid applying for college it’s truly terrifying. I’ve got 15 years to retirement and I’m very fortunate to have not done anything to get myself canceled. I really hope I can make it to retirement without a an overblown dongle-gate situation crushing my career. I still think about those guys… Edit: Grammar, as always.
- pseudalopex 5y agoThe men involved in the PyCon dongle incident found other jobs quickly. The woman did not.
- underseacables 5y agoShe lied and made false accusations that got two people fired. When the facts came out it became clear that she was the bully.